Handicapped Duel Match 2016

Hello Chess Friends )

I am pleased to announce,

-I organized a new handicapped duel match: Crafty vs Stockfish

Note: About two years ago, I ran similar duel match, for details

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Just I'd like to point out,

Both engines are played with different time controls

1st Duel (11 games):

Crafty 25.01 JA x64's TC: 60 Minutes

Stockfish 240416 x64's TC: 3 Minutes

2nd Duel (12 games):

Crafty 25.01 JA x64's TC: 120 Min + 10 Sec

Stockfish 240416 x64's TC: 3 Min + 2 Sec

3rd Duel (10 games):

Crafty 25.01 JA x64's TC: 240 Min + 10 Sec

Stockfish 240416 x64's TC: 3 Min + 2 Sec

Tournament Conditions:

Intel Core i7 970 3.20 GHz

ShredderClassic / Arena 3.5.1 GUIs

Auto 232 Mode

Ponder OFF

1 Core

SF: 128 MB Hash

Crafty: 1024 MB Hash

Tablebases OFF

Perfect 2016 Book

Note that for a better engine performance,

Crafty is played as WB only under Arena GUI

According to CCRL (40/40):

Stockfish 7 64-bit 4CPU : 3337 Elo

Crafty 25.0 64-bit 4CPU: 2960 Elo

*Elo Difference: 377 Elo

According to available data:

Crafty v25.01 JA x64's strength should be close to Super GMs of +2800 Elo

And I would not much surprised if Crafty is not stronger than almost all GMs !)

Why Stockfish (not another engine), because SF is SCCT CS II Blitz Champion

In short,

The purpose of the current handicapped match was simply to see what slow time control is needed,

where Top GMs or engines with close strength to Crafty will be stronger than Stockfish in Blitz ?!

And as we see..the answer of my question is still not clear.... but it's definitely true that:

- GMs or close strength/weaker engines than Crafty needs much more time to defeat SF in Blitz !!

Best Regards,

Sedat